Welcome Finance Refunds

Welcome Finance

Loan Refunds

Welcome Finance

The sub-prime mortgages crisis that started in summer 2007 were the creation of a long housing boom enjoyed by people, which were been fuelled by low interest rates and excess liquidity. During the boom period mortgages brokers enticed by big commission, let people with poor rating into accepting housing mortgages with little or no down payment and without proper tax documentation or credit checks. The groundwork was established for the coming mortgage meltdown. For another example of this go to the Welcome Finance website.

 The mortgages were bought by banks and packaged together on Wall Street with other similar debts. That was then moved on to the Wall Street and where it then became “Structured Investment Vehicle”. Investors bought these mortgages and didn’t keep the loans for very long and sold them to investment, insurance firms etc world wide, who really looked at these mortgages as a way to make some serious money. The diagram below shows the difference between the two models of mortgages. Welcome Finance

It was made so attractive because the credit rating agencies, such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch, give ratings to every type of bond according to its risk. Letter grades mark the safety of the investments like AAA is given to the safest ones, for example US government bonds. The problem with these high rating is that agencies used the wrong data to estimate the risk. Looking back historically, what they saw was a very low rate of defaulting, a very low foreclosure rate. However, the current situation was different - with new qualification requirements, new mortgages given to people who would never have been granted them before. This speculative housing was eventually going to burst. These mortgages were unlike the conventional mortgages that have a fixed-rate 15- or 30-year mortgages, but theses ARMs were offered at low interest rates that increased after a period of time. For another example of this go to the Welcome Finance website.

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